Everyday Conversations with Amin Mombani30 Aug

EPISODE 13 | TERRIBLE GIFTS — Dr. Charleanea Arellano on Survival Patterns, Self-Trust & the Embodied Narrative Framework

Statistically, she shouldn't be sitting in this conversation. A childhood of poverty, neglect, and abuse in Denver could have written her story for her. Instead, Dr. Charleanea Arellano became a psychologist and leadership coach of over 30 years, spent her adult life turning her hardest experiences into what she calls "terrible gifts," and built a framework — Embodied Narrative — that's now reshaping how her clients understand themselves.

In this episode, Amin talks with Dr. Charleanea about reading a room to survive before she had language for it, proving her own capability through softball, bodybuilding, and triathlons, coming out fully as a queer Latina woman in 2024, and the brutal year that followed — 2025 — when everything that used to work for her simply stopped. What came out of that year became the foundation of the work she does today.

🎙️ In this episode:

Growing up without adults around, and learning to read a room to survive
Why she says "you aren't what happens to you — it cultivates who you become"
From competitive softball to bodybuilding to triathlons: proving her own capability
Why she wrote the memoir Terrible Gifts alongside her clinical work
Coming out fully as a queer Latina woman in 2024— her best year
2025: investing everything into her business and getting nothing back
Why insight alone doesn't change a pattern — and what does
The Embodied Narrative framework, broken down in plain language
The pattern she sees most in high-achieving women leaders that nobody says out loud
Wildcard: hilariously bad at strategy games despite being excellent at life strategy

💬 "You aren't what happens to you. The things that happen to you cultivate the person you can be." — Dr. Charleanea Arellano

🎧 Watch the full conversation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIoXPESGBAlhpbeWg_E7Hrw

-------------------------------------------------Contact Details for Guest Dr. Charleanea Arellano — Psychologist, Leadership Coach & Author of Terrible Gifts Website: https://drcharleanea.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/CharleaneaMArellanoPhD/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drcharleanea/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drcharleaneaarellano/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drcharleanea?lang=en-------------------------------------------------Contact Details for Host Amin Mombani - Host Email: Mombanipodcast@gmail.com Website: https://aminmombani.podview.com Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIoXPESGBAlhpbeWg_E7Hrw Spotify Link: https://open.spotify.com/show/033CGyVtUGh2KFJ0MJypEZ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/everyday-conversations-with-amin-mombani/id6782858287 CastBox: https://castbox.fm/channel/id7284639?country=us LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amin-mombani-29979721/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61592072735008#EverydayConversations #TerribleGifts #EmbodiedNarrative #SelfTrust #TraumaToTransformation

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